My NEGATIVE Sub. buying experience

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I decided I wanted a 2004 Forester, base model, AT, RED, with no options
except the center armrest extension, at invoice price minus the rebate
(~19,600.) I went to the dealer I'd been to a few times before.
Saturday, 7/31, last day of the month. Four PM, almost closing time.

Well, the REDs were all gone :-(
Oh well, it's just a color, right. So I went for a green one, not really
sure I like the color that much, but it's just a color, right?

And the two green ones both have about $400 of option. Well, one option
was the armrest, which I was going to get anyway.

Well, the salesman gets me to go up $100, and the manager gets another
$100 out of me. My 19,600 is now 20,100. Well, 200 over invoice isn't
bad.

They offer me $4700 on my old car ('99 Nissan Altime 58,000 miles) which
works out to about $5000 with the sales tax advantage. I could have done
it, quick and dirty, but I decide a friend or a stranger will certainly
give me as much or more.

The sale goes through reasonably, businesslike, can't complain. Drive
the Forester home. As happy as _I_ can be with a purchase, though I
realize I _really_ wanted a RED car. Oh well, just a color, right? And
now I have two cars, which I need like a hole in the head.

Seven PM. Ride my bicycle back to dealer to retrieve my Altima. Good
exercise, over 12 miles. Home around sunset, decide to go to Ribfest. I
ride my 2 week old Honda over to my buddy's place, see if he wants to
go. He's tucked in, but we shoot the bull for a while. Television is
showing dangerous thunderstorms coming in, near Chaska. After about 20
minutes I hear rain, so I high tail it. I've got less than 3 miles to go
on my motorcycles, but the HEAVENS HAVE OPENED UP! After about 1/2 mile
I stop under a tree, a little shelter from the HAIL. At least the hail
is small, ~ 1 cm. I try to keep going, but I can't see through my wet
steamy glasses, and I'm DRENCHED. Stop at a gas station for a minute,
but you know how it is? Sometimes it rains for an hour, sometimes is
stops after 5 minutes. I push on the last mile to my home. As I drive up
the incline of my alley, the water is pouring out, maybe 3 inches deep!
Get it in the garage. Dry it off. Don't see any hail damage, but I can't
tell exactly in my dim garage. I'm happy I don't really see any hail in
my neighborhood. The cars, both parked outside, should be okay.

Today I get up, and there's a lot of downed foliage. Leaves everywhere:
not a good sign. Cars look okay, but covered with leaves. I hose them
off, and oh yeah, there's hail damage :-(

So that's my story. I didn't get the color I wanted, I paid more than I
wanted, I ended up with one more car than I needed, within 4 hours I had
hail damage to both vehicle, maybe all three.

I know none of this is Subaru's fault. Mostly my own fault. I just
needed to get it off my chest. I hope the roof is okay :-\
 
Yes, hail damage sucks. But have you ever bought a car for the invoice
price? I consider 2-3% over a good deal, given the sticker price is usually
10-15% over. And some people pay that, although I imagine fewer and fewer
with all the info available on the internet...we got our 4Runner and WRX for
3%.
 
3136.bay.webtv.net>, (e-mail address removed)
says...
The sale goes through reasonably, businesslike, can't complain. Drive
the Forester home. As happy as _I_ can be with a purchase, though I
realize I _really_ wanted a RED car. Oh well, just a color, right? And
now I have two cars, which I need like a hole in the head.

Seven PM. Ride my bicycle back to dealer to retrieve my Altima. Good
exercise, over 12 miles. Home around sunset, decide to go to Ribfest. I
ride my 2 week old Honda over to my buddy's place, see if he wants to
go. He's tucked in, but we shoot the bull for a while.

Did you buy a Forester, or a Honda?
 
I know none of this is Subaru's fault. Mostly my own fault. I just
needed to get it off my chest. I hope the roof is okay :-\

Yep. None of it's Subaru's fault -- hope you feel better <g>
 
Today I get up, and there's a lot of downed foliage. Leaves everywhere:
not a good sign. Cars look okay, but covered with leaves. I hose them
off, and oh yeah, there's hail damage :-(

So that's my story. I didn't get the color I wanted, I paid more than I
wanted, I ended up with one more car than I needed, within 4 hours I had
hail damage to both vehicle, maybe all three.

I know none of this is Subaru's fault. Mostly my own fault. I just
needed to get it off my chest. I hope the roof is okay :-\
Sounds like a bad week! I know how I would feel... I had something
similar happen when I bought my very first NEW car. It was a 1990
Honda Civic. I had driven over to a relatives house for dinner. My
young nephew was getting out of his folks van. When he slid the side
door open it hit the hood on the Civic square in the middle causing a
large gouge and dent. I about had an accident in my pants! Then, I
thought, "Oh, well, I can stop worrying about that first scratch!.
Somehow the first one is the worse.


BlueSTi
"Scary-Fast"
 
just to make you feel better
my subbie got rear ended and broke into on the same day
=(
 
and you relate all that to a "NEGATIVE Sub. buying experience"?

that's a little ridiculous. looks more like a lot of bad decisions
you made added up to one bad day.
 
Gadgets said:
What a waste!

Your correct....buying a Subaru / FHI product is a TRUE waste of money.
(.....and a very foolish one at that!) Subaru / FHI = Overrated junk
cars.
 
I agree. If I spent all my time complaining about cars I don't like in their
respective groups, I'd never get anything productive done.
 

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